Dress-stay.



Patented Mar. 4, |902. A

No. 694,6I9.

A. A. DIETER,

DRESS STAY.

(Application med .my 15, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES? PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIN A. DIETER, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO GREAT EASTERN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS,

A PARTNERSHIP.

DRESS-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,619, dated March 4, 1 902.

I Application filed J'uly 15,1901.- Serial No. 68,296. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that i, ALVIN A. DIETER, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Dress-Stays, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stays or stiffeners for ladies dresses and other articles of wear-v ing-apparel; and it has for its object to provide alight, flexible, and durable stay which can be made up in strips of indeterminate length and cut into sections, each constitut ing astay, and which shall be entirely non-metallic, and therefore unaffected by moisture.

The invention consists in the improved construction, which I will now proceed to dc-v scribe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side view of a stay embodying my invention, a part of A the sheath or covering being displaced to expose portions of the stiffeningstrips. Fig. 2 represents a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4. represents a side view showing a stay with but one stiffening-strip. The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the gures.

lReferring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, a a represent stifteningstrips,which are thin and fiat pieces cut from rods of cane or ratan, such as is commonly used in chair-making, the grain extendinglengthwise of the strips. These strips are preferably taken from the surface of the cane, so that one side has the skin or original outer layer of the cane. hb represent ribbons of any suitable textile fabric-such as silk, linen, dre-placed upon opposite sides of the strips a a, said strips being arranged edge to edge between the ribbons b b. The ribbons are united to each other by longitudinal rows of stitches c, which are outside the strips a, there being three rows in this embodiment of my inventionone row between the inner edges of the'strips o ct and two rows between the edges of the ribbons and the outer edges of the strips. The ribbons are united to the strips by stitches d passing through both the ribbons and the strips and arranged in zigzag rows or lines, each stretch of each zigzag row being oblique to the grain of the strips a.

This oblique arrangement of the stitches d enables the needle which forms the stitches to penetrate the strips a, without splitting the same, each hole y made by the needle being out of alinement lengthwise of the strip with the next hole, so that portions of the fibers of the strips are continuous between each hole and the next. The strength of the strips is thus preserved and the parts are firmly and durably united. 'The zigzag stitches d also serve to unite the scarfed ends at the necessary joints or splices between two lengths of cane, as shown in Fig. 3, the said joints being thus made sufficiently strong and durable. It will be seen, therefore, that a stay-piece of indeterminate length can be made, the strips being jointed or spliced, as occasion may require.

' Fig. et shows a stay composed of a single strip o and a textile covering h', which may be seamless or woven in tubular form.

' I claim--` l. A stiffener or stay comprising a strip of cane, and a sheath or covering of textile fabric inclosing the strip, the said strip and covering being connected by stitches extending through the said strip and covering and arranged in lines or rows which are oblique to they grain of the strip, whereby the stitches are caused to firmly unite the strip and cover and to unite overlapped ends of sections of the strip.

2. A stiffener or stay comprising a plurality of strips of cane arranged parallel with each other, edge to edge, and a sheath or covering composed of -twojribbons of textile fabric placed upon opposite sides of the strips, the said ribbons being united to each other. by longitudinal rows or lines of stitches which do not pass through the cane strips, and to the said strips by stitches extending both through the ribbons and strips, and arranged in lines or rows which are oblique to the grain of the strip.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

` ALVIN A. DIETER.

Witnesses:

E. BATCHELDER, l-I. L. RoBBINs. 

